Spotting Dalmatians: Children’s ability to discover subordinate-level word meanings cross-situationally

2019/07/13 by Felix Hao Wang, John C. Trueswell · 16 citations
Psychology · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive psychology #Language Development and Disorders #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Linguistics #Meaning (existential) #Ostensive definition #Psychology #Referent #Situational ethics #Social psychology #Word (group theory)

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2019.101226

published in Cognitive Psychology 114, 101226 (Elsevier BV)

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